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Sunday, October 26th, 2008Go on Digital Ireland – Cybercom and Nubiq are winners
Friday, October 24th, 2008Cybercom has scooped a 2008 MAA Globe Award for Best Digital Communications Campaign in Toronto this week, for its work on the Powerade ‘Never Give Up’ campaign. It’s not the first award though for this. The campaign has won the Grand Prix at the APMC (Association of Promotional Marketing Consultants), an award for Best Marketing and Communications Campaign at the Coca-Cola Worldwide Marketing Awards and more.
And then also this week Waterford’s Nubiq won a Most Innovative Mobile Internet Consumer Deployment award at the Mobile Internet World in Boston for their Zinadoo Mobile Website Creation service.
Well done both companies who have been working away for the past while and are being rewarded for their efforts. The recognition they got is great for them and for the digital and tech scene in Ireland.
Fluffy Links – Friday October 24th 2008
Friday, October 24th, 2008Great idea this. The Pan American Cycle Test. Cycling a LOT of miles for charity.
Nice update to Tweetrush.
An amazing photo from Phil. Phil is doing the photos for BarCamp Cork.
This got overlooked on the week that we had but Mary O’Rourke called the Gardai after getting a visit from a partner of O’Callaghan?
Did anyone in Superquinn get in trouble for this?
Zombie walks are fun but the realism and work that went into doing this amazes me. The professionalism of amateurism?
Take a closer look at your food packaging.
A different form of Open University.
Bjork and Thom Yorke. Seems it’s no great at all.
Google can do canned replies now. Interesting.
Fun atheist ads.
Even decades ago, Steve Jobs could do presentations. He’s improved, seems the business world is just getting worse when it comes to these skills.
Via
Amazing Nike ad, music helps. Where’s it from? 🙂
Nike – Fate
RTE.ie removes/deletes story about property developer
Friday, October 24th, 2008Someone got a screenshot though. Someone else did great detective work.
The Irish Times still have the story though.
Michael Kennedy TD for Fianna Fáil – Champion gobshite
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008And the winner is Michael Kennedy TD. Single parents with 10 kids getting free houses. Said during the medical card protest. Yeah, blame them, if they exist outside of their urban legend.
I very very very much like what Declan said in the comments over at RedMum’s gaff:
TDs dont understand people who are entitled to the medical card because most politicians have spent decades arranging to get the card for people who are *not* entitled to them. The idea that anyone in the country could have a legitimate claim for a card is totally alien to them.
Get your election on – Leviathan US Election special on November 4th
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Leviathan are running an election night special on Tuesday November 4th and it looks like it’s going to be BIG.
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Leviathan Political Cabaret marks its relaunch with a very special and unique event which will capture all the excitement, elation and despair over the course of one night as it becomes clear who will lead the United States and, arguably, the Western World, for the next four years.
The event will be hosted by author, economist and broadcaster David McWilliams with a rolling panel of experts, academics, American ex-pats, politicians and commentators. American exile Richard Delevan will man the blog desk, monitoring online activity and analysing leaked exit polls, rumours and breaking news.
There will be expert analysis of the media coverage of the campaign and polling day with live big-screen links to Fox, NBC, CNN and others. Paddy Cullivan will report live from New York City with subversive commentary and music and some very special guests. Free Wi-Fi will be available for live blogging.
Fluffy Links – Thursday 23rd of October 2008
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008PutPlace is free for three months. Hurry!
Niall has a good post on trad media and online media.
Good post from Paul on management.
Google now segregates the web. No content for you if you don’t use Google.
It means that a user coming from a Google search result may see the content, but when the user arrives at the same page from elsewhere – like from a link in a news article – they might see a registration or payment box and no actual article or other content.
Web Analytics. Nice numbery equationy thingies.
Please Fix the iPhone. Clever Marketing.
Tiger Swim. Checkkit.
Proof that eejits do get jail time.
Kinetic typography: Napoleon Dynamite
Jim says they’re ace so that’s true – No age – Eraser
Kinetic type
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008This is addictive:
The Dark Knight:
300 (I like this one)
Kill Bill (I looove this one)
Pulp Fiction
BarCamp talk: The Famous Raffle. Wanna be on TV?
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008The list of talks (so far) people have suggested for BarCamp Cork II on November 1st. I’m going to do two, if we have the time and space.
The second one is top secret though some know what it is, it’ll be revealed on the day. It’s a bit of fun and troublemaking. And the first: The Famous Raffle: An open discussion (chaired by me) where one person is picked out of a hat and we figure out how to make them famous nationally
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Vulgar, brash and tabloidesque it maybe but .. actually there are no buts. Allof the above. Applicants put their name on a piece of paper and all pieces are put into a hat. We then pick out one from the hat, bring the person to the front of the room, they explain who they are and why they want to get fame and then we as a group figure out the best way to get them into the national consciousness (without them doing anything criminal). Someone can take notes, or the group can and that can be used as their media plan. They will also win one of the very exclusive Mediawhore badges as commissioned by Mulley Communications.
You in? Sign up to BarCamp Cork now.
No video or audio recording or transmission will be allowed at either session.
Fluffy Links – Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Very interesting post from Richard Hearne about the Enterprise Ireland eBusiness mailing list and the enforced censorship on it after he gave his opinon on the Board Fáilte webcheck programme. SEO me hole.
Good post by Barry on Facebook ads.
Congrats to Enterprise Ireland on their Silicon Valley blog.
Brilliant brilliant brilliant. This guy’s Fiat van was a piece of shit so he put all this issues with it on the side of the van.
The Irish Spatial Data Exchange. Nice.
If you’ve watched The Wire Season 5 you know this is exactly the story of newspapers in America.
Great videos from Google themselves on how their search systems work.
Love this T-Shirt.
Pizza Hut Pizza ordering app on Facebook. Clever. One day an Irish company will figure out that they can do the same for the Irish market.
Gladwell on genius. Nice audio piece.
Via Beyond MA: 50 Cent does his own version of the Apprentice:
Cement Mixer versus Cluster Bomb: